wren

Not crazy. Good luck. I think you've got a fair chance.

It has a market board. So customers and BV itself place bids and asks and people buy and sell as they choose. Most of the trades at present are BV-with-customer (the counterparty involved is named (nickname) on the email confirmation and I have seen only BV as my counterparty over many trades). As bars can be withdrawn it is connected physically to the rest of the physical market which should keep arbitrage down.

Any link?

Public awareness has to start sometime. Very much at the beginning still in my opinion. Thanks for that interesting anecdote.

Gold is at €782.75. I exchanged euros for gold.

Lots of us on here have bought from CoinInvestDirect and I have heard of no suspicions of fakes. It is surely a big dealer. I find it convenient because I can pay euros direct between bank accounts. One place in Yorkshire frequently mentioned is WeigtonCoinWonders in Weighton. Several here have recommended it saying the owner is a nice chap. Link: http://weightoncoin.com/coins/

That's what it says in the email quoted above: Comparisons are probably scattered through different threads. It would be best to read the guides to each thoroughly and compare. I have gold at BV. But I'm probably done with buying silver having averaged in all summer.

I've been thinking that maybe people should wait at least 24 hrs before getting excited about some move in the dollar or gold.

The article says "bolt out the blue". http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...tfpcU&pos=4

Thanks for letting us know. I already have a lot of silver at GM so probably won't buy at BV. Nice to see that their commission will be only 0.8% to buy or sell silver, the same as gold.

You can put other posters on ignore. Go to their profile and somewhere on the left-hand menu is a button "Ignore this user" or something like that. That way their texts do not appear to you but you can open with a click if you want.

I have ordered from CoinInvestDirect several times and I am happy with their service. Note that I am located in Finland but many in the UK have posted here that they are happy with their service. I think the sovs differ in price according to demand - older ones are a bit more expensive, presumably as people are willing to pay a bit more. Note that CID lists their buy price alongside their sell price which gives an idea of what you could sell for. It's likely that you would not get back the extra when you sell. I think the price of UK houses will drop in gold, possibly in GBP also but inflation fights against that (I still guess the crash will kick off again probably after the election. The UK is in a sorry financial state.) Note that in the UK sovs and Britannias are not subject to capital gains tax as they are classed as legal tender coins. So for UK residents they could be the best. Sovs tend to be cheap on a per gramme basis at least the last time I checked at CID.

Sunday Times http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/busi...icle6945979.ece

About every 2 years or so gold has had a massive upleg. When it moves like this it really moves and many of the gold bulls are surprised at the speed. See the 2 articles I posted earlier to put it in the context of the whole bull market. This has happened before in the winters of 07-08 and 05-06. If it goes like the 2 previous big uplegs this could continue until the spring with some minor corrections along the way.

Putting the recent increase in price in the context of the whole gold bull market so far. http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_08/hamilton120409.html Another article: http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/hamlin120409.html

Interesting that Auntie Pravda never mentions the price of gold in GBP even though the BBC is nominally a British entity.

It's now been closed to non-Swedes due to too much traffic.

This picture gives more numbers than the original "angels". 1650 has been his top target for years. It's bigger and clearer at this link: http://jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/20.../Sinclair32.jpg

Just a reminder that the average seasonal factor is still very strong for Dec, Jan and Feb at least. As a largely buy-and-hold guy I expect just to hold and sit through these winter months.

A consolidation soon would be good and many are saying the same: http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/vermeulen113009.html And Technically Precious With Merv: http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/burak112909.html Jim Sinclair talked of a "Swiss stair" which seems to have occurred over the last few weeks. The idea being that big buyers have moved in fairly rapidly on each small correction making a sort of "stair".

At GoldMoney, although I haven't tried it yet, it's possible to swap metals directly which is cheaper than selling for cash and then buying the other metal. I'll look forward to seeing silver at BV when it is fully public next week.

It seems that only select existing customers can see silver before the full public launch (as implied in the email). @Wanderer Is it possible to swap directly between silver and gold without going via a paper currency?

USD 1201.20 EUR 794.41 Silver USD 19.18

Although this is in the Members Only forum which probably keeps the numbers down.

Hilarious audio posted by GF. An article at the oildrum about "peak gold" http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5989